On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:02:38AM -0500, Reini Urban wrote: >On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:06:36AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>> I'd like to package and maintain libargp for Cygwin. ?argp is a C >>>> interface for >>>> processing command line arguments. >>>> >>>> The libargp source files are taken from gnulib. ?gnulib is a well-known >>>> program >>>> available in major Linux distros (e.g. >>>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnulib), >>>> but I'm not aware of any distros that separately package just argp from >>>> it. ?So >>>> I'm not sure if libargp needs to be voted on or not for inclusion in >>>> Cygwin. >>>> >>>> Documentation: ? ? http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html >>>> Source home page: ?http://www.gnu.org/s/gnulib/MODULES.html >>>> License: ? ? ? ? ? LGPL >>> >>>Package maintainers, please consider voting in favor of libargp for Cygwin. >>> >>>I don't know of any rule that says I can't vote for my own package, so I'm >>>voting +1 for libargp. ?I want it specifically to use with nosleep [1]. ?I >>>could have just baked the argp source files statically into nosleep, but they >>>would have made up the bulk of the code, which seemed silly. ?It seems better >>>to make libargp available for shared use. >> >> I think the fact that other releases contain an implementation of argp should >> be good enough to make its inclusion a foregone conclusion. ?I do hope that >> someday the package can go away and this functionality can be added to the >> Cygwin DLL though. >> >> So, all we need is a GTG on packaging. >> >> The same doesn't apply to the "nosleep" package, of course. > >Since argp is a gnulib extension, and gnulib cannot/should not be >packaged as seperate library, only pulled in from source (clisp e.g. >does so) I fail to recognize >why nosleep does not include gnulib at all?
argp is part of glibc but we can't just pull it into Cygwin. It makes sense to include a general implementation: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-09/msg00266.html
